By John Woolfolk and Maggie Angst, The Mercury News, April 14, 2020
Gov. Gavin Newsom said Monday he is coordinating with governors in Oregon and Washington to end the statewide stay-home order he imposed nearly a month ago to slow the spread of the deadly coronavirus pandemic, a surprise shift as hospitals here see fewer patients than expected.
Newsom gave no timeline Monday for lifting California’s first-in-the-nation stay-home order issued March 19 but said that he would provide details Tuesday of the benchmarks that would lead to a reopening. The order has kept schools and all but essential businesses closed and most residents confined to their homes.
“We need to see a decline in the rate of spread of the virus before large-scale reopening,” Newsom, Oregon Gov. Kate Brown and Washington Gov. Jay Inslee said in a joint statement, “and we will be working in coordination to identify the best metrics to guide this.”
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